{"product_id":"caudillos-hugh-m-hamill-9780806124285","title":"Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America","description":"In this major revision of the Borzoi Book Dictatorship in Spanish America, editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael N橾ez, Mexico's Porfirio D僘z, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican \"Benefactor\" Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Per and his wife Evita, Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner - called \"The Tyrannosaur,\" Chile's Augusto Pinochet, and Cuba's Fidel Castro. Hugh Hamill was Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a founder and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies - He also wrote The Hidalgo Revolt: Prelude to Mexican Independence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh Hamill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806124288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806124285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Hugh Hamill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926247211263,"sku":"9780806124285","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_abeac89a-d1a4-4c5e-ab9b-b65787cf6afd.jpg?v=1681082016","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/caudillos-hugh-m-hamill-9780806124285","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}